“They all have hopes and dreams,” Head Coach Romeo Crennel said. “Then you have to call them into your office. You try to tell a guy he didn’t make it here, but he might make it with another team. That doesn’t help the player much.”

Crennel’s job gets tougher. He must deliver the pink slips that get to the roster down to 53 by Saturday.

The team must cut one more player by today to reach the 75-player limit.

Chris Barclay won the Kansas City game with an 88-yard kick return and has averaged 14.3 yards as a receiver out of the backfield. Charles Ali is a better blocker than No. 1 fullback Lawrence Vickers. The Browns will keep one or the other, possibly neither.

Veteran linebackers Jason Short and Mason Unck are good special tams players, but the Browns might prefer to keep two young younger linebackers with upside, David McMillan and Kris Griffin. Unck might not be back for a fifth year with the Browns.